Amazon is Producing its Own Sitcoms, Asks Users to Help Pick Which Ones

Like Hulu and Netflix before it, Amazon will soon begin offering its own original TV content available via its Amazon Instant Video service. The Internet retail giant recently announced six pilots that it plans to produce, some of which come from from familiar names in TV. Eventually, all the pilots will be made available to view and download on Amazon. And In a fun twist, the one's that get the best viewer feedback will get special consideration to be developed as a full series. Here are the six pilots that Amazon has planned.

Alpha House, about “four senators who live together in a rented house in Washington DC.” Written by Doonesbury creator Garry Trudeau, who also made the vastly underappreciated “Tanner ’88” for HBO.

Browsers, “a musical comedy set in contemporary Manhattan that follows four young people as they start their first jobs at a news website,” from former “Daily Show” head writer David Javerbaum.

Dark Minions, an animated series “about two slackers just trying to make a paycheck working an intergalactic warship,” from “Big Bang Theory” co-stars Kevin Sussman and John Ross Bowie.